Our New Hog Project
My neighbor Dave stopped by the other day and thought maybe we should get in the hog business. He had a line on some feeder pigs and thought it would be a good idea to use my cattle yards to fatten a few up for a winter meat supply. As Jay, Tamela, David and I sat around and talked about it we decided to go with 6 feeder pigs.
The next day David showed up with eight feeder pigs just in case someone wanted more!!! In turn I think it was a good idea becasue as I have told people what we are doing everyone seems to want some pork when butcher. David, Jay and I fortified a yard for them and unloaded them. It was alot fo fun to watch the little pigs run around so excited to eat grass, weeds and root in the cattle manure.
We put them in a solid little yard I use to sort cattle. We also put a run of electric fence around the bottom of yard which after we got working seems to be the best way to keep these little guys from mrooting under the fences.
I used a piece of gaurd rail as a feed bunk which seems to work very well and got a hog water tank from my Dad. All in all we spent zero money getting set up with this deal and don’t really plan on spending much money at all during this whole project. I have some ground milo and hulless oats I feed them along with all our table scraps and garden scraps. The pigs also love any green plants, so as we weed the garden we take the weeds over to the hog pen and feed them to pigs. They go nuts when you show up with a handfull of weeds and grass.
It has been a very interesting deal. I have never really been around hogs that are not confined so it is fun to see them in a more natrual enviroment.
The pigs rooting through some grass.
The pigs rooting through some old corn stalk bedding
The Hog Boss of Section 16
David sharing his hog thoughts!!!
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